The below resources are intended for Chicago Booth students and alumni who are interested in learning more about entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA). In order to view the videos, you will need to log in with your CNET credentials. The Polsky Center’s Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, ETA faculty, and ETA alumni have delivered the content through workshops and information sessions.
Produced by the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, this practical guide answers the most frequently asked questions on ETA.
This blog, written and produced by Jim Sharpe, a visiting executive at the Harvard Business School, includes comprehensive insight on raising a search, searching, and operating as a CEO. Resources include case studies, blogs relevant to search, books and guides on ETA, research, and search tips from searchers, operators, and search fund investors.
ETA Workshop: Legal Aspects of ETA
Raam Jani (Partner, BakerHostetler) hosted an interactive presentation on the legal side of ETA investments and deals. A partner in BakerHostetler’s business group, Raam Jani has a varied corporate practice that includes middle-market private equity, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and search fund/entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA) transactional matters, along with an entrepreneur-focused general corporate practice that provides outside general counsel services to closely-held private business clients and emerging companies across a wide spectrum of industries.
ETA Workshop: Self-Funded Search
The Polsky Center hosted a panel of Booth ETA alumni who successfully launched self-funded searches, covering topics such as the self-funded search process, acquiring the business, and the day to day of running a business.
ETA Workshop: Traditional Search (Part 1)
The Polsky Center hosted Trevor Lwin, MBA ’12 (Partner, Blue Frame Capital Partners) and Nathan Dey, MBA ’16 (Managing Partner, Northspring Partners) for part one of an ETA workshop on traditional search. This interactive workshop covered disseminating the PPM and optimizing your cap table.
ETA Workshop: Traditional Search (Part 2)
The Polsky Center hosted Trevor Lwin, MBA ’12 (Partner, Blue Frame Capital Partners) and Nathan Dey, MBA ’16 (Managing Partner, Northspring Partners) for the second part of a two-part series on traditional search in ETA. This workshop covered the search phase, sourcing your search, and getting to LOI.
Driving Growth: A Speaker Series on Operating in a PE/ETA Context
This speaker series explores topics on operating and CXO within private equity and entrepreneurship through acquisition. The first lecture in the Driving Growth Speaker Series featured Booth alum Max Needle, MBA ’20, a representative of Alpine Investors. Max is the vice president of operations at TEAM Public Choices, an Alpine Investors-backed home care services provider serving individuals with disabilities and the elderly, with an emphasis on empowering self-direction and consumer choice.